Taylor Swift: The Boyfriend Shuffle
Because Taylor Swift's love life is way more interesting than our own, here's a run-down of the American beauty's hook-ups and splits.
Getty ImagesEd Sheeran
Taylor apparently spent most of the evening before the 2013 Brit Awards in a hotel room with 22-year-old Ed Sheeran. The pair are already firm friends, having played and performed together after a collaboration on her track Everything Has Changed.
Swiftness: It's all hearsay right now. But they'd sure make a cute couple, right?
Song? We think he'd turn the tables on her and pen his own break-up track.
Splash NewsTom Odell
Taylor was spotted out with up-and-coming British singer Tom Odell the night after the Brit awards 2013. The pair were seen getting cosy in a London pub, before leaving together.
Swiftness: It's still just a rumour
Song? TBC. We'd quite like to hear a collaboration between them though, since we're speculating here.
Splash NewsHarry Styles
They’ve both been making their way through Celebdom with unabashed enthusiasm, so it was only a matter of time before their paths crossed, right? Taylor started dating notorious Brit heartbreaker Harry Styles, late last year, but they reportedly split after a mammoth fight mid-holiday left Taylor boarding a flight home from the British Virgin Islands alone, while Harry stayed on to party with bigwig businessman Richard Branson. Bizarrely.
Swiftness: Two months
Song? TBC - Although fans are already predicting the track will be entitled Wrong Direction.
WennConor Kennedy
Taylor Swift started dating Robert Kennedy Jr’s son, Conor, in the summer of 2012, and even bought a house in the same Massachusetts area as his family. But by the time autumn hit, the romance had fizzled out, with Swift saying: “I don't really know that much about love, it turns out."
Swiftness: Three months
Song? TBC
INFphoto.comJake Gyllenhaal
Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal enjoyed a brief, but PDA-tastic, romance back in 2011. Be it giggling over ice-cream or holding hands over skinny lattes, the pair became one of the most photographed celebrity couples of the year. Jake reported spent $160,000 to have her flown to him on a private jet for a date, before allegedly dumping her by text because of their ‘apparent’ 10-year age-gap.
Swiftness: Two months
Song? Reportedly, We Are Never Getting Back Together – “You would hide away and find your peace of mind with some indie record that's much cooler than mine.”
Rex FeaturesZac Efron
Taylor Swift and Zac Efron reportedly got very close while promoting their flick, The Lorax, back in February 2011, though neither have ever confirmed it.
Swiftness: One month. Allegedly.
Song? There could be… let the speculation begin!
Rex FeaturesJohn Mayer
Taylor Swift hooked up with notoriously loose-lipped lothario John Mayer in early 2010, after collaborating on his album. When it ended, the starlet expressed her hurt and anger towards Mayer the only way she knew how; through the medium of song… In June 2012, Mayer spoke of the scathing lyrics for the first time, telling the world he “didn’t deserve it”.
Swiftness: Three months
Song? Dear John – “Dear John, I see it all now that you're gone. Don't you think I was too young to be messed with? The girl in the dress cried the whole way home.”
WennTaylor Lautner
Taylor Swift became the envy/hate-figure of every Twi-hard, back in ’09, when she hooked up with an epically-buff-from-Jacob-training Taylor Lautner, after meeting on the set of Valentine’s Day. Taylor Squared – as they became affectionately known – split just after Lautner’s 19th birthday in December 2009, reportedly because he was more into her than she was him.
Swiftness: Three months
Song? Back to December - "I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile... And I go back to December all the time. You gave me all your love and all I gave you was goodbye.”
Rex FeaturesLucas Till
Taylor Swift dated X-Men: First Class star Lucas after he featured in her You Belong With Me video in 2009. After they broke up, the actor said: "We dated for a little bit. But, there was no friction because we were too nice. Most relationships work out cause you get along and then you don't, and then you make up and it's passionate, and with us I really just liked her as a friend. That’s the only reason that didn't work out." He did, however, reveal she was a better kisser than Miley Cyrus.
Swiftness: One month
Song? Nope. Sorry, Lucas.
Rex FeaturesJoe Jonas
Taylor Swift dated American dream, chastity-vowed Jonas Brother, Joe in 2008. He famously dumped her via phone, which Taylor blasted in as many interviews as possible, saying the kamikaze call “was like, a record, I think, for how quick. I looked at the call log - it was like 27 seconds." Ouch.
Swiftness: Three months
Song? Forever and Always – “I hold onto the night, you looked me in the eye and told me you loved me. Were you just kidding?”
